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Hi All,

Need some advice please
I want to put an ssd into my laptop.
According to my machine's specs it support "up to 512 M.2 PCIe SSD"

there seems to be a lot of variations available, and I am no expert.
If i am looking to spend +-2.5k, what should i be looking for?
I have a rectron and axiz account btw

My lappy is the Gigabyte P17 v5

notes (in case its relevent). My plan is to make ssd my boot drive. install windows, office, visual studio 2017, and maybe run a 45gb sql db on there as well (i havent decided yet if thats a smart idea or a waste of space - note I often restore a recent copy of my db from a prod server so the speed will be a saver)

Thanks guys!
 
If you are going the M.2 route would suggest one of these:

SAMSUNG MZ-V6E250BW
SAMSUNG MZ-V6E500BW

Not all drives have the same Read/Write speed these are Read 3200 MB/s and 1500/1800 MB's.

Most of the other ones are only 550 which is same as installing a normal SSD.
 
Zarnicate said:
Not all drives have the same Read/Write speed these are Read 3200 MB/s and 1500/1800 MB's.

Most of the other ones are only 550 which is same as installing a normal SSD.
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I doubt you are going to notice the difference, those high speed ones have their use in high disk iops server operations though.

There are more comparison videos like this out there but this sums it up,
[video=youtube;tIXSSOzyLbs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIXSSOzyLbs[/video]

Another https://youtu.be/p0u2jbvmX_8?t=8m17s

My recommendation would be to get a ~500MB/s unit at a bigger size as you are not going to notice a speed difference on a laptop/desktop. If there is no to very little price difference you might as well go nvme over sata.

I would take a Samsung 850 EVO, 500GB, M.2, SATA6G over a Samsung 960 EVO 250GB, M.2, NVMe if the price falls within R500 either side of his R2.5k budget.
 
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crudler said:
My lappy is the Gigabyte P17 v5

notes (in case its relevent). My plan is to make ssd my boot drive. install windows, office, visual studio 2017, and maybe run a 45gb sql db on there as well (i havent decided yet if thats a smart idea or a waste of space - note I often restore a recent copy of my db from a prod server so the speed will be a saver)
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Can't go wrong with a Samsung 960 EVO.

https://www.wootware.co.za/samsung-960-evo-250gb-nvme-m-2-pci-express-3-0-x4-solid-state-drive.html

It's on sale, too! It's still one of the fastest and most consistent NVMe drives you can buy today. Considering that you're doing some SQL stuff along with VS 2017 programming, having a drive with high write speeds and IOPS will be the biggest benefit to the workloads you'll be putting the laptop through.
 
SSDs is a new world to me. can I get away with 250gb as a primary drive?
 
crudler said:
can I get away with 250gb as a primary drive?
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I'm a power user, and 250GB has been more than enough for me for the last three years. Granted, I fill it up sometimes with games and backups and work for other people, but 250GB is enough for the stuff that I do. I don't hoard data.
 
CataclysmZA said:
I'm a power user, and 250GB has been more than enough for me for the last three years. Granted, I fill it up sometimes with games and backups and work for other people, but 250GB is enough for the stuff that I do. I don't hoard data.
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He should be fine based on his listed requirements and not gaming.

Me I need more :D

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CataclysmZA said:
I'm a power user, and 250GB has been more than enough for me for the last three years. Granted, I fill it up sometimes with games and backups and work for other people, but 250GB is enough for the stuff that I do. I don't hoard data.
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If you're a power user, then what is above that?

I have a 1TB 960 Evo in primary, 4TB HDD secondary for data, 750GB SSD for games, and 2 x 256GB SSD (empty currently).

When it was just a 256 + 2TB, I struggled for space on the SSD.

RE database. For development I don't recommend putting the DB's on the SSD. It tends to give you a false sense of performance, then you deploy and boom. Just my 2c.
 
I do frequent db restores for testing. So speeding up that process is a winner. But totally note your point.
 
crudler said:
Hi All,

Need some advice please
I want to put an ssd into my laptop.
According to my machine's specs it support "up to 512 M.2 PCIe SSD"

there seems to be a lot of variations available, and I am no expert.
If i am looking to spend +-2.5k, what should i be looking for?
I have a rectron and axiz account btw

My lappy is the Gigabyte P17 v5

notes (in case its relevent). My plan is to make ssd my boot drive. install windows, office, visual studio 2017, and maybe run a 45gb sql db on there as well (i havent decided yet if thats a smart idea or a waste of space - note I often restore a recent copy of my db from a prod server so the speed will be a saver)

Thanks guys!
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Hey Crudler

You can perhaps look at these, they are right arround R2500.

Samsung 960 EVO NVMe 250GB - R2085

ADATA XPG SX8000 NVMe 256GB - R2155

Corsair Force MP550 NVMe 240GB - R2515

Crucial MX300 525GB - R2690

The Samsung 960 EVO is the fastest and cheapest. But the Crucial is double the space.
 
Thanks so much. Looking at specs im not sure id the Samsung justifies the price over the crucial.
But let me see what my suppliers have. The jew in me cant reconcile buying retail lol
 
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